Dairy Daze...and Now Beyond

 We heat our house with an outside wood furnace.  The indoor furnace can be run on electricity and at times we do use that option, usually in early spring or late fall when the weather is too warm for us to want to have a sustained fire burning, but cool enough to need a bit of heat in the early morning. In winter, however, we keep the wood furnace burning and it does well at helping keep our electric bill under control and keeping the house toasty.  However, feeding the furnace is always a chore.  In fact we need to get a couple more loads of wood today. Here last week Gary was processing more firewood for the furnace.  This is actually just to the East of the front of the house here.  There to the right of the picture you can see a mess of weeds and wood.  That is the remains of a dead tree that fell last year.  Gary has been processing it for the furnace.  And then there in the center of the picture you can see him squatting down sawing ye...

  We all love a good sunset, and the one the other day was very nice.  It had been overcast all day, drizzle off and on.  It wasn't until quite late the sun managed to drop down from behind the clouds and gild everything.  I was out walking the dog and managed to catch this shot looking up K Highway.  The picture isn't as lovely as in person, of course, but still, you get the idea.   But as with all lovely things, the sunset gilding is quite brief.  Here is a picture just a few minutes later. The sun sets fast.  We don't realize it in the moment, but time is fleeting.  Make the most of life.